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Improper Advert
Published on 2012-05-23 20:37:00
Saw this advertisement placed by Groupon Malaysia on behalf of International Islamic University of Malaysia (''IIUM"). On the email section, we can see that the Construction Business MBA is being offered at a discount rate of up to 70% with a price of RM2,000. Just by reading this, you would have really thought that the actual price is RM6,666.66 and now that IIUM is giving a discount of RM4,666.66 and you only need to pay RM2,000.Any person would have quickly click onto the advertisement to rea [..] > read more
How to seek redress when abused by Malaysian authorities
Published on 2012-05-21 20:12:00
How to seek redress when abused by Malaysian authoritiesIf you know of anyone, let alone our citizens, who was abused, bullied, sexually harassed or mistreated by any member of our Msian police, immigration officers, army personnei or civil servants or any such like, you may lodge a formal complaint to the newly set up Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission or SIAP which stands for Suruhjaya Integriti Agensi Penguatkuasaan.Please visit its website http://www.eaic.gov.my/ to know the procedure [..] > read more
Global Bersih 3.0
Published on 2012-04-27 06:32:00
MALAYSIABersih 3.0 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah - https://www.facebook.com/events/315096545223703/Bersih 3.0 Kuching, Sarawak - https://www.facebook.com/events/338388782891089/Bersih 3.0 Sibu, Sarawak - https://www.facebook.com/events/207365332707350/Bersih 3.0 Miri, Sarawak - https://www.facebook.com/miribersih3Bersih 3.0 Melaka - https://www.facebook.com/events/371520759559030/Bersih 3.0 Johor Bahru https://www.facebook.com/events/119455874852836/Bersih 3.0 Ipoh, Perak - https://www.facebook.com/event [..] > read more
Such Press Statement Won't Be Publicised
Published on 2012-04-23 21:00:00
UMNO's lies & Personal and Public Safety Of Penang CMPress Statement By Special Officer To Penang Chief Minister Zairil Khir Johari In Komtar, George Town On 1.4.2012UMNO, Utusan Malaysia And TV3 Are Warned That They Will Be Held Responsible For The Personal and Public Safety Of The Penang Chief Minister For Repeatedly Publicising And Highlighting Lies That Lim Guan Eng Had Caused Mosque Land To Disappear.The public safety of the Penang Chief Minister can not be treated lightly following dangero [..] > read more
Understanding the Lynas Rare Earth Plant
Published on 2012-04-19 20:02:00
Q1: What is rare earth (RE) ?Rare earth (RE) is just a metal, as ordinary as other metals like iron,silver and gold. The difference between them is we don’t encounter RE indaily life, e.g. you don’t wear RE bracelets, you don’t build the bridgewith RE. It’s precious, valuable and essential for many high-techindustries.Q2: Who is LYNAS ?LYNAS is the owner of the RE Mine and Gebeng plant, incorporated and listed in Australia. LYNAS (M) Sdn. Bhd is wholly owned by LYNAS Inc.Q3: Where does t [..] > read more
Doctor, Why Are You So Irresponsible?
Published on 2012-02-01 01:18:00
The doctor was called one evening for an urgent surgery. He answered the call, rushed to the hospital in minutes & went directly to the surgery theatre.The boy's father, waiting in the hall for the doctor, yelled at the doctor on seeing him, "Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have any sense of responsibility?"The doctor smiled & said, "I am sorry, I wasn't in the hospital & I came as fast as I could after receiving the call...... An [..] > read more
Urgent Message from PAGE Malaysia
Published on 2011-10-19 20:04:00
For your children, your children’s children and their children…..Subject: Fwd: URGENT Message from PAGE MalaysiaURGENT Message from PAGE MalaysiaPlease email, share and/or share this with all your friends so that we can quickly collect the numbers that we need to transform us all into a voice loud enough to be heard. Hopefully with everybody’s effort, we can make this go viral on the internet and strengthen our voice in the shortest time possible.Dear Students, Parents and Malaysians,MALAY [..] > read more
Many Malaysians Say YES to PPSMI Option
Published on 2011-10-19 19:09:00
From: PAGE Malaysia Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:16 PMSubject: MALAYSIANS Say YES to PPSMI OptionTo:Dear parents and friends,The quality of Malaysian education has deteriorated to an alarming level, with our schools and local universities churning out TOO MANY unemployable graduates who possess a severe lack of ability to communicate or correspond in English despite numerous A's scored in examinations, and producing 'professionals' of worryingly poor calibre especially in the fields of science a [..] > read more
Business Courses For Permanent Residents?
Published on 2011-10-17 21:23:00
It was reported that six bus loads of 240 permanent residents purportedly of Indonesians, Cambodians and Bangladeshis were ferried to a remote Bangi resort to attend a business entrepreneurship course.Our Home Minister has said he has no knowledge about such course being offered to permanent residents.What a privilege we have here in Malaysia for the permanent residents.Even the poor Malaysians don't even get to smell such a course for themselves.This course is being funded by Malaysian taxpayer [..] > read more
Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry
Published on 2011-10-06 23:25:00
Stanford Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out o [..] > read more
10 Hours Delays?
Published on 2011-09-19 20:21:00
(as published in Malaysia Today on 19 Sept 2011) By Lynne_cOn behalf of the passengers of Air Asia X flight D7 2686 from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon, Seoul on September 2, 2011, I would like to share our experience about a delay that cost us more than 10 hours and the shabby treatment that Air Asia extends to its paying customers.The chronology of the events are as follows:The flight, D7 2686 was initially supposed to take off at 11.00pm and reach Incheon at 6.00am the next day.11.00pm - Captain of [..] > read more
Accident Plot Created By Police, Hospital, Lawyer & "Victim"
Published on 2011-09-18 20:14:00
Happened to a friend's friend from another church.A plot created by a policeman, a hospital staff and the so-called accident victim's lawyer plus the "victim" himself almost duped the court into awarding and causing a Malaysian driver to be penalised just for the sake of extra money.Justice prevailed in the end but you have to be cautious of such scam from now onwards.Lesson learned here ..... do not take things for granted in any minor accident. Do the needful like in any other major accident. [..] > read more
An Unprepared Team A Danger To All
Published on 2011-09-06 21:44:00
A team by the name of Putera 1Malaysia Club went into Somalia with the idea of conducting humanitarian aid mission in a particular war zone area with the famine crisis being the main concern.Unfortunately, this team was so unprepared and went in a haste without knowing what they are heading into. Not only that they have risked their own lifes unnecessarily but they had to be protected by the security forces that were already busy with the war. And now, they have to worry for a bunch of innocent [..] > read more
The Mousetrap
Published on 2011-08-12 21:49:00
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. The mouse wondered, "What food might this contain?" He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed this warning: "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is of grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered [..] > read more
Football Officials Charged By FIFA
Published on 2011-08-11 19:26:00
The cats are being let out of the bags now.FIFA has charged 16 football officials representing Caribbean nations. They are as follows:-David Hinds, Mark Bob Forde (Barbados)Franka Pickering, Aubrey Liburd (British Virgin Islands)David Frederick (Cayman Islands)Osiris Guzman, Felix Ledesma (Dominican Republic)Colin Klass, Noel Adonis (Guyana)Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti)Anthony Johnson (St Kitts and Nevis)Patrick Mathurin (St Lucia)Joseph Delves, Ian Hypolite (St Vincent and the Grenadines)Richard Grode [..] > read more
I Shot Two Burglars
Published on 2011-06-29 10:29:00
George Phillips, an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.George opened the back door to go turn off the light, > read more
Did IWK Come?
Published on 2011-06-25 07:51:00
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd, at a press conference, stated that they will conduct desludging at housing estates at least once every two years. That means to say some area could see them coming to their housing estates more than once every two > read more
My Most Expensive Dumpling aka Bak Chang
Published on 2011-06-07 20:22:57
Thanks to a couple friend of mine, they treated us to two gigantic dumpling aka bak chang. The size is really humongous if you compare it with the size of the fork and spoon at the bottom of the picture. Guess the price ........... it's RM200 > read more
My Most Expensive Dumpling aka Bak Chang
Published on 2011-06-07 20:21:00
Thanks to a couple friend of mine, they treated us to two gigantic dumpling aka bak chang.The size is really humongous if you compare it with the size of the fork and spoon at the bottom of the picture.Guess the price ........... it's RM200 each > read more
Scholarship Mess for Malaysians
Published on 2011-05-29 02:25:38
The recent upheaval about the scholarships not being properly awarded to deserving students is just a ploy. A ploy or a decoy to divert your attention from something more serious. Or the next general election is upcoming and something has to be stirr > read more
Voter Registration In Selangor & FT
Published on 2011-05-26 05:46:54
DAP FT/Selangor is having a mega statewide (Selangor & FT) voter registration exercise this weekend, 28-29 May, at 12 locations. We're hoping to hit 10,000 new voters! Venues include markets (for the semi-urban areas) and shopping centres for th > read more
Employment Scam?
Published on 2011-05-19 19:48:41
Received the following email from info@ukjob.com which has a subject title of "Golden Opportunity To Work in UK !!! Send Recent Curriculum Vita". Did a search on KenGeo Alliance Oil and Gas and it doesn't even has a domain haha. A further sear > read more
Is Your Job A Mismatch For Your Gifts?
Published on 2011-05-13 15:52:03
Is your job a mismatch for your gifts? by Rick Warren Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches. 1 Corinthians 7:17 (TEV) "If you are in a > read more
Our Office Work Is God's Plan
Published on 2011-05-13 15:52:03
Your work is part of God's plan by Rick Warren For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) "The gifts, the abilities, the talents, even the interests you > read more
No Communication In Telecommunication Company
Published on 2011-05-09 04:08:40
I have submitted my application for a telephone / broadband line via Telekom Malaysia Berhad at their TM Point, Bandar Puchong Jaya branch on 3 February 2011 under application reference number of 1-73TETA. On the day of registration, the man beh > read more
All Students At Politicians' Mercy
Published on 2011-04-11 04:17:28
I'm really at lost for words with the politicians who are currently governing the country. One day they had this mind. Later, they thought it would be better in the other method. Finally, they said alright, we'll stick to another plan. All this just > read more
Defend My Right? But That's Not The Right I Want
Published on 2011-04-08 13:59:47
The Malaysian Chinese Association's ("MCA") president is so thoughtful that he has gone over to Kelantan, who's on the verge of banning gambling in the form of lottery tickets, to negotiate on behalf of the non-muslims telling them that this has > read more
Uphold Democratic Principles
Published on 2011-04-08 13:59:30
STATEMENT OF THE CCM YOUTHUPHOLD DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES: FULL FREEDOM, FULL RIGHTS - NO TO 10-POINT PROPOSAL”**8 April 2011** Kuala Lumpur – 8 April 2011. CCM Youth issued a press release today expressing their views in response to the various pre > read more